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Using Wikis for Newspaper Research

We've heard from a few bloggers that are conducting research into the features of newspaper websites in their own countries in response to our look at U.S. papers.  We should have a few new reports to highlight in the coming weeks.  Two of the bloggers are taking a collaborative approach to the research and have set up Wikis to facilitate things. ...

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PR Firms that Blog: An Update

Update: We have added a page to our Wiki that serves as a running list of PR firms that blog.  If you aren't listed, please feel free to edit the Wiki and add yourself.  Original post follows.

Around six months ago I wrote two posts (1, 2) about whether the world's largest PR firms had official,...

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Spam+Blogs=Splogs — A Growing Menace to the Blogosphere

Splogs are to blogs as spam is to emails.  It's a scam, a growing problem on the Internet, and splogs are threatening to pollute the blogosphere.  They seriously challenge efforts to monitor real conversations in the blogosphere.

There's a very good article in the September 2006 issue of Wired (in print,...

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Back to School

Kids everywhere are going to hate me for saying this.  But, with the summer winding down, the smell of school is in the air.  That's right, the back-to-school shopping season is almost upon us.  And for kids heading off for their freshman year of college, back to school shopping is getting more and more complicated every year....

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Highlighting a Few Older Posts

The biggest flaw in the way blogs are structured is the near total emphasis on the newest posts.  The obsession with the new means that posts sitting in your archive just aren't read that often.

Problogger has a great article with tips on how to get more people to look at older posts on your blog.  ...

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